QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Femininity and Fitality - ✔✔What does Salmon Pink and Apple Green represent?
✔✔Mission of AKA Sisterhood - ✔✔- Service to all mankind
- Encourage high scholastic and ethical standards
- Promote unity & friendship among college women
✔✔Purpose of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority - ✔✔• To cultivate and encourage high
scholastic and ethical standards
• To promote unity and friendship among college women
• To study and help alleviate problems concerning girls and women in order to improve
their social stature
• To maintain a progressive interest in college life
• To be of service to all mankind
(Stated in Article II of Constitution and Bylaws)
✔✔AKA Charter Members - ✔✔1. Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
2. Beulah Burke
3. Lillie Burke
4. Margaret Flagg Holmes
5. Marjorie Hill
6. Lucy Diggs Slowe
7. Marie Woolfolk Taylor
8. Anna Easter Brown
9. Lavinia Norman
✔✔First President of Alpha Kappa Alpha - ✔✔Lucy Diggs Slowe
Not Ethel because Constitution stipulated that President be a senior (Ethel was a junior;
"with sisterly admiration," nominated Lucy Slowe to be President)
✔✔Name and Colors - ✔✔• Chosen by Beulah Burke
• Alpha, Kappa, and Alpha = first letters of the three Greek words that form the motto of
the sorority. "By culture and by merit"
• Salmon pink and apple green
- Signifies abundance of life, femininity, fidelity, love
✔✔What does 20 Pearls stand for - ✔✔For the 9 charter members, 7 sophomores, 4
incorporators
✔✔Names of 7 sophomore founders (not initiated) - ✔✔1. Joanna Berry
2. Norma Boyd
3. Ethel Jones
, 4. Sarah Meriweather
5. Alice Murray
6. Carrie Snowdon
7. Harriet Terry
✔✔Directorate - ✔✔• Governing body of Alpha Kappa Alpha when the Boule is not in
session
• Sorority's Board of Directors
• Current directorate is led by Supreme Basileus, and made up of 18 members
• Members = 15 graduate sorors and 3 undergraduate sorors (Second Supreme Anti-
Basileus, two Undergraduate Members-at-Large)
✔✔Important Dates:
January 15, 1908
January 29, 1913
October 8, 1949 - ✔✔Jan. 15, 1908 - AKA was founded
Jan. 29, 1913 - AKA was incorporated
Oct. 8, 1949 - first national office opened
✔✔ Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1908 - ✔✔Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Incorporated was organized on the campus of
✔✔Ethel Hedgemen Lyle - ✔✔The inspiration for establishing Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, Incorporated came from
✔✔Tremain Robinson & Elizabeth Appa Cook, schoolteachers - ✔✔By whom was Ethel
Hedgeman Lyle influenced?
✔✔Lucy Diggs Slowe - ✔✔The first president of Alpha Kappa Alpha was
✔✔By the International Program Committee, as defined by the Supreme Basileus -
✔✔How are chapter program activities determined?
✔✔Leadership Seminar - ✔✔An activity for intensive national study of organizational
ideas, structure and techniques of group leadership is known as
✔✔Second Supreme Anti-Basileus and Member-at-Large - ✔✔Undergraduates may
hold which of the following offices?
✔✔Scholarship - ✔✔All of these are standing committees of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, Incorporated except
✔✔International Regional Director - ✔✔The Director of the International Region is